Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks ago the Mississippi flood was the centre of extra-session discussion whereas by last week the flood appeared to be running a bad second to tax reduction. From views expressed by both Senators Smoot and Harrison and also by Representatives John N. Garner, Texas Democrat, and William R. Green, Iowa Republican (both members of the Ways & Means Committee of which Mr. Green is chairman), it appeared likely that both parties would agree on a reduction of corporation taxes (from 13½% to possibly as low as 10%); that there might be a reduction of surtaxes on incomes of less...
...golf course construction which are still visible in the celebrated Travis traps of the Garden City (L. I.) Golf Club, where he was for years the spare, silent, deliberate presiding genius. It was in one of his own bunkers, the cavernous one, at the left of the 18th green at Garden City, that Mr. Travis surrendered a bitter match to Jerome D. Travers, who, with H. Chandler Egan and E. M. Byers, succeeded him as leading U. S. amateur golfer...
...This is just another of Colonel Green's strange whims," saiD one of his neighbors, Mrs. Arthur A. Houghton, sister-in-law of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Several years ago doctors paid attention to wall paper because they found that most of their patients poisoned by arsenic had inhaled it as dust from their green-tinted wall paper. Wallpaper makers ceased using arsenical dyes for their designs...
...doctors were interested in wall paper under which cockroaches and other room vermin made their nests. Cockroaches for a long time were thought by so able a scientist as Dr. Johannes Fibiger, rector of the University of Copenhagen, to be a cause of cancer (TIME, Nov. 8). Also, Paris green, once popular for killing cockroaches, bed bugs and like triflers, is made of arsenic...